No extra laundry but hey cookies made from scratch count?

No extra laundry but hey cookies made from scratch count?
There is a running joke with my husband and I, albeit entirely at my expense. The joke is that I tell him that I plan on baking something. I’ll even get the ingredients and pans that are needed. I tell him I’m finally going to take that beautiful kitchen aid stand mixer that I HAD ALWAYS wanted and then was finally gifted it as a wedding present. He says ok….and then waits, and waits, and waits. And that cheese cake still hasn’t made itself yet. I think he laughs even harder when I say that when I become stay at home I’ll be making nice meals and desserts, and bread from scratch. He just stares at me blankly. Well I guess he has a reason to I suppose. Prove it, he tells me! 

Well, I finally proved him wrong last night! Sort of…no cheesecake though. When I last left off I said that we had to figure out dinner, make a meal plan, and go grocery shopping. We did that but not exactly the way we had planned. We decided that there wasn’t really anything in the house to make and by the time we would get home it would probably be late. We were trying to think of somewhere we could eat and I suggested Panera Bread. (This girl can’t get enough of it.) After feeding our little Miss Charlotte and leaving Fox News on so she can get some good conservative view points) we headed out. In case anyone is interested we both opted to do the pick two combo. I had a greek salad and the sierra turkey with water (in a cup…to drink) and S had the Italian combo sandwich and some tomato soup thing…100 degrees in the South during the middle of Summer but sure why not? He also had water. Look at us trying to be all healthy. 

Afterwards, meal planning consisted of the two minutes that it took to get from Panera Bread to Walmart. We planned food for three days and I told him I was going to get stuff to make cookies and ingredients for a new recipe. He was probably thinking, “Oh here we go again.” We finished grocery shopping but spent a little more than I was hoping to. We did buy a ten dollar blanket for the dog’s crate because she has already destroyed a bed, a 2 crate pads, and even took large chunks out of her plastic crate bottom- I kid you not. Oh Charlotte… We also bought two new baking pans for my cookies and some pizza pans. 

When I got home after putting away the groceries something inspired me to make the cookies instead of putting it off. Who knew the stand mixer was so easy to operate!? How embarrassing that I put it off for so long. L Anyway, I was really happy with how they turned out! I even was good and made sure I cleaned up the kitchen afterwards! As you can imagine no extra laundry was done that night but I still felt pretty productive!